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BURNTISLAND WRIGHTS, 1648-1835

 

 

[From the Burntisland Hammerman's Craft Minute Book (1648-1741) and the Incorporated Trades of Burntisland Minute Book (1685-1835) - see Burntisland Hammerman for notes on both; those entries from the latter book have been marked "ITB"]

 

ANDERSON, ADAM: wright; bound app to William Lyell, March 11 1719

 

ANDERSON, ALEXANDER: mason; adm Freeman, Sep 1829 (ITB)

 

ANNAN [ANEN], JOHN: bound app, 40s paid, June 9 1733

 

ARNOTT, JOHN: app to Thomas Lundie, Sep 1749 (ITB)

 

BARKLIE (BARCLAY), ALEXANDER: cooper; bound app to Adam Connor, 30 April 1684; adm Freeman, 5 Jan 1689; active, 1689-94

 

BEANS, JAMES: wright, son of Andrew Beans, maltman and brewer in Burntisland; Burgess, Jan 18 1770; a John Beans, adm Freeman, Sep 1806 (ITB)

 

BAXTER, DAVID: wright; entered journeyman to William Lyell, 27 Nov 1712

 

BEVERIDGE, JAMES: wright; adm Freeman, Sep 12 1828 (ITB); m Aug 12 1823 Euphemia Shields

 

BISHOP, ADAM: wright; entered journeyman to William Lyell, 27 Nov 1712

 

BLACKWOOD, JOHN: wright; bound app to Alexander Young for 5 yrs, 5 Oct 1711; adm Freeman, 12 July 1715; active, 1715-18

 

BLAKATER, ALEXANDER: adm Freeman, 6 Aug 1667; 20 merks to be paid at Martinmas, and the full to be paid at Whitsunday 1668; full payment rcd, 3 Sep 1668; active, 1667-1702

 

BONTHRONE: coopers; David Bonteron/Bontron adm Burgess, May 5 1744 and Freeman, Sep 1744; James Bonteron/Bontron adm Burgess Nov 11 1746 & Freeman, May 1747; and George Bonthorn, son of David Bontheron, cooper, adm Burgess, Dec 27 1770

 

BROUNE, JOHN: app to Hendrie Waterstone; 14/- paid, 11 April 1667; adm Freeman, 5 May 1676

 

BROWN, JOHN: wright; bound app to William Lyell, April 19 1716, his grandfather, William Brown, advancing money for his app (ITB)

 

BRUCE, ALEXANDER: cooper; adm Freeman, 20 Dec 1665; active, 1665-83; app: David Rankeilour (1668); John Campbell (1673); John Cowie (1679s); James Lighton (1681); Robert Miller (1681)

 

BUTLER, JOHN: plumber and glazier; adm Freeman, 3 Aug 1728; active, 1728-35; rents piece of ground belonging to Trade (24 Dec 1728); complaint from Andrew Short, mariner, re work (Aug 8 1732); m to Katharine McIntosh

 

CAMERON, DAVID: wright, Shore; adm Freeman, Sep 1811 (ITB); Pigot (1825); app: David Wemyss (1812); James Doig (1819); David Kirk (1820)

 

CAMPBELL [CAMELL], JOHN: app to Alexander Bruce, 2 May 1673

 

CARWALS, JOHN: cooper; bound app to John Stocks, May 17 1718 [name given as JOHN CALDEWALL in ITB]

 

CHALMERS, JAMES: mason; adm Freeman, Sep 1807 (ITB); listed Pigot (1825)

 

CHAPLAN [CHEPLEN], THOMAS: app to Alexander Lyell, Sep 1794 ITB

 

CLARK, GILBART: bound app, 40s paid, June 9 1733

 

CLARK, JAMES: cooper; bound app to Adam Connor, cooper, 1 Nov 1683; adm Freeman, 5 June 1684; active, 1684-1729

 

COLIER/COLIAR/COLYAR/COLZIER/COLER

 

COLYAR, JAMES (1): app to James Grahame, paid #4, 28 Oct 1658; adm Freeman, 16 March 1663; made full payment for his freedom, 31 Oct 1668; son, Walter

 

COLIAR, JAMES (2): wright; eldest son of Walter Coliar, and brother of Janet Colliar, who was married to Thomas Lundie, wright; adm Freeman, 15 Nov 1712; active, 1712-77; Deacon (1735); m to Euphan Watson; servant: Mitchel Waterston (1729); Disp, in favour of Adam Kirk, maltman/brewer in Burntisland, eg 19 Nov 1777 (B9/7/2)

 

COLIAR, WALTER: wright; son of James Coliar (1); adm Freeman, 11 Aug 1673; active, 1673-1723; Deacon (1722); relict, Marjory Hutchon, d May 16 1738

 

CONNELL, JOHN: app to Alexander Bruce; 40/- paid, 2 May 1673

 

CONNOR/CUNNE/CUINE

 

CONNOR, ADAM: cooper; app to Hendry Waterstone, 40/- paid, 28 Oct 1658; adm Freeman, 18 Aug 1665, paid #4; active to 1689; app: James Paterson (1680); James Clark (1683); Alexander Barclay (1684)

 

COUTS, ALEXANDER: app to James Mores, April 1764

 

COWIE, JOHN: entered servitor to Alexander Bruce, journeyman money of 40s paid, 8 May 1679

 

CRAWFORD, JOHN (1): wright; adm Freeman, 29 Jan 1666; active, 1666-1700; Deacon (1686; 1692; 1697-99); son, John (2); app: David Tholane (1668); Magnus Sutherland (1673); Hendrie Houston (1677); Hendrie Thomson (1677); Robert Halkston (1680); John Stocks (1680); John Dewar (1686); Thomas Gilchrist (1687); William Douglas (1689); William Ingles (1690)

 

CRAWFORD, JOHN, jnr (2): wright; adm Freeman, 12 Nov 1699; active, 1699-1711; Deacon (1707); son, John (3)

 

CROMBIE [CRAMBIE], DAVID: plasterer; app to his father, David Crombie, Sep 1815 (ITB)

 

CURRIE, JAMES: active, 1648-65

 

 

DALRYMPLE, ROBERT: wright; bound app to Robert Knox, Sep 18 1723

 

DEWAR, JOHN (1): active, 1648-55

 

DEWAR, JOHN (2): wright; bound app to John Crawford, 27 Nov 1686

 

DOIG, JAMES (1775-1859): joiner & grocer, Kirkton, 1827-59; was b Carnbee, 3 July 1775, son of David Doig (b 1740), agricultural labourer, and Betty Foggo (b 1748), who were married at Carnbee, 17 Dec 1772; app to David Cameron, Sep 1819 (ITB); adm Freeman, Sep 14 1827 (ITB); Cen (1851) & Slater (1852) as grocer; d May 13 1859 aged 85; m Wemyss, 2 June 1797, Annie Henderson (b Alloa, 28 Sep 1774; d Burntisland, Jan 26 1861); son, Alexander Doig (8 June 1805-23 Jan 1855) was employed as a millwright/engineer at the Grange Distillery

 

DOUGAL, ROBERT: wright; bound app to Iveander Mackiver, 12 May 1725

 

DOUGALL [DUAGELL], ROBERT: app to Ivander Makiver, May 1725 (ITB)

 

DOUGALL, WALTER: cooper; adm Freeman, Dec 6 1723; active, 1723-32; m 21 Nov 1724 Mgt Gray

 

DOUGLAS, WILLIAM: app to John Crawford, 20 Sep 1689

 

DRYSDALL, JOHN: adm Freeman wright, Sep 1813 (ITB)

 

EDMOND, JOHN: mason; Burgess, Feb 9 1744

 

FARNIE, ALEXANDER: mason; adm Freeman, Sep 1829 (ITB)

 

FARNIE, DAVID (1): mason; adm Freeman, Sep 1806 (ITB)

 

FARNIE, DAVID jnr (2): mason; adm Freeman, Sep 1816 (ITB)

 

FOOT, HENDRIE: app to David Stocks, July 1743 (ITB)

 

FORD [FOURD], JOHN: active, 1648-65

 

FULTON, LAWRANCE: entered journeyman to Robert Knox, April 9 1729

 

GALLSTON, ROBERT: wright; bound app to John Crawford, 28 Jan 1680

 

GARNOCK, ANDREW: wright; Burgess, Oct 15 1770

 

GEADS (GEDDES), ROBERT: wright; bound eihter app or journeyman to John Thomson - booking money received, Nov 1733

 

GILCHRAYST (GTILCHRIST), THOMAS: wright; bound app to John Crawford, 7 Dec 1687; adm Freeman, 21 Nov 1701; a James Gilchrist, carpenter, m to Isobel Walwood

 

GOODEALL (GOODALL), FRANCIS: mason; adm Freeman, 14 Dec 1714; active, 1714-1726

 

GOODEAL (GOODALL), RICHARD: mason?; adm Freeman, 17 May 1718

 

GRAHAM, JAMES (1): active, 1648-72; son, James (2); app: James Colyar (1658); Lawrance Keltie (1658); Charles Watson (1664); James Robertson (1665); William Stanhous (1667)

 

GRAHAM, JAMES (2): eldest son of James Graham (1) [ITB]; adm Freeman, 21 Dec 1700; active, 1700-1711; wright; Deacon (1708-10)

 

GRAHAM, PATRICK: 40/- paid as apprentice, 21 Dec 1670; Freedom entry money of #5 paid, 5 May 1674

 

GRAY, JOHN: wright; bound app to Charles Watson, 6 Dec 1677; adm Freeman, 29 Nov 1683

 

GREIG [GRIGE], JAMES: slater; adm Freeman, Sep 1814 (ITB)

 

GRUFFIN, MORES (MORRIS GRIFFIN): cooper; adm Freeman, 14 Oct 1734

 

HALKSTON, ROBERT: app to John Crawford, 28 Jan 1680

 

HAXTON, JOHN: app to David Knox, Sep 1770 (ITB); adm Freeman, Sep 1790 (ITB)

 

HAXTON, THOMAS: app to Alexander Lyell, Sep 1792 (ITB)

 

HODGE [HOOGE/HOUGE], ALEXANDER: bound app under Robert Knox, 40s received, 20 June 1735

 

HOGAN, JAMES: app to Walter Lundie, Sep 1769 (ITB)

 

HOGAN, WILLIAM: wright; servitor to John Thomson; entered journeyman (prob to John Thomson), May 17 1718

 

HOOPER, LAURENCE: app to Alexander Lyell, Sep 1790 (ITB); adm Freeman, Sep 1806 (ITB)

 

HOPE [HOP], ALEXANDER (d 1815): mason; Burgess, Aug 1 1772; adm Freeman, Sep 1772 (ITB); d Feb 14 1815 aged 72; m to Helen Anderson, who d March 8 1800 aged 59

 

HOPE, JOHN: adm Freeman mason, Sep 1806 (ITB)

 

HOUSTON, HENDRIE: app to John Crawford, 40/- paid, 22 May 1677; adm Freeman, Sep 3 1681; active, 1681-95

 

INGLES [INGLLES], WILLIAM: app to John Crawford, July 1690 (ITB)

 

JOHNSTON, THOMAS: app to David Stocks, Sep 1750 (ITB)

 

 

KELOK, NUCKEL: bound app, 40s paid, June 9 1733

 

KELTIE, LAURANCE: app to James Graham, paid #4, 29 Oct 1658

 

KID, JAMES: wright; servitor to John Thomson; entered journeyman (prob to John Thomson), 14 May 1729; adm Freeman, 16 Sep 1730 (this entry scored out)

 

KIDSTON, JOHN: mason at Gallow Harbour, nr Burntisland; Burgess, Feb 20 1771

 

KIRK, DAVID: wright, 1824-33; app to David Cameron, March 1820 (ITB); adm Freeman, Aug 1824 (ITB); bankrupt, c Aug 1833, all claims with Alexander Thomson, the Trustee, on or before Oct 1 1833, "as a Division of the Funds will immediately thereafter take place" (FJ Aug 24 1833); m July 9 1824 Harmen Lyall

 

KIRK, JOHN: mason; adm Freeman, Aug 1826 (ITB)

 

KIRKADIE, THOMAS: paid 40/- as apprentice, 2 May 1671

 

KNOX, DAVID: wright, son of Robert Knox; adm Freeman, Sep 1760 (ITB); Burgess, May 4 1761; app: George Knox (1764); John Haxton (1790); married to Judith Hutchison

 

KNOX, GEORGE: app to David Knox, Sep 1764 (ITB)

 

KNOX, JAMES: app to Alexander Lyell, Sep 1803 (ITB); adm Freeman, Nov 1811 (ITB)

 

KNOX, PETER: wright; journeyman to Robert Knox, Feb 8 1721

 

KNOX, ROBERT: wright; bound app to William Lyell for 5 yrs from Dec 31 1711; adm Freeman, March 14 1720; active, 1720-38; Deacon (1729-30); dead by 1750 (ITB); m 22 March 1723 Anna Dalrymple; son, David; app and journeymen: Peter Knox (1721j); William Lason (1723j); Robert Dalrymple (1723); Lawrance Fulton (1729j) Alexander Hodge (1735j); John Livingstone (1738)

 

LASON, WILLIAM: wright; entered journeyman to Robert Knox, 18 Sep 1723

 

LESSELLS,, GEORGE: app to David Stocks, July 1769 (ITB)

 

LIGHTON, JAMES: app to Alexander Bruce, 25 March 1681

 

LINDSAY [LINSE], JAMES: app to William Lyell, wright, paid Box Penny of 20s Scots, 10 Oct 1723 (ITB)

 

LIVINGSTONE [LIVESTON], JOHN: son of Robert Livingstone, tenant in Torryhills; app to Robert Knox, Sep 1738 (ITB); Burgess, Nov 13 1749; adm Freeman, Sep 1750 (ITB)

 

LIVESTON, WILLIAM: entered journeyman to John Thomson, 5 April 1739

 

LUNDIE, JOHN (d 1851): cabinetmaker, Shore; app to Alexander Lyall, Sep 1803 (ITB); afterwards Freeman; listed Pigot (1825 & 37); d May 1 1851

 

LUNDIE, THOMAS: wright; adm Freeman, 23 July 1726, having married a Freeman's dau; Deacon (1731; 1737); m 27 Dec 1725 Janet Colier, the sister of Agnes Colliar, who was married to John Paterson, smith in Burntisland; children: Walter and Mgt; app, journeymen and servants: Mitchell Waterston (1729s); David Wishart (1731j); David Stocks (1735); James Mores (1741); John Watt (1741); John Arnott (1749); Walter Scot (1765); Mouray Wallter (1765)

 

LUNDIE, WALTER: son of Thomas Lundie and Janet Colliar; Burgess, Dec 19 1754; adm Freeman, Dec 1754 (ITB); app: James Hogan (1769)

 

LYELL, ALEXANDER: app to James Mores, Sep 1765 (ITB); adm Freeman, Feb 1786 (ITB); app: Laurence Hooper (1790); Thomas Lyell (1791); Henry Paxton (1792); Thomas Haxton (1792); Thomas Chaplan (1794); James Knox (1803); John Lundie (1803); William Sinclair (1805)

 

LYELL, ANDREW: adm Freeman, Jan 1 1679; active, 1679-87

 

LYELL, DAVID: wright; adm Freeman, 5 Sep 1730; active, 1730-34

 

LYELL, THOMAS (1): wright, Burgess of Burgh; adm Freeman, 30 June 1654; active, 1654-76

 

LYELL, THOMAS: app to Alexander Lyell, Sep 1791 (ITB)

 

LYELL, WILLIAM: wright; adm Freeman, 6 Oct 1678; active, 1678-1732; Deacon (1703-05); absented himself from Trade Meetings; warned 4 or 5 times about this behaviour, and for this contempt was in April 1716 "from ever after avott in this trade in any ceas hear after" (Minute dated April 19 1716) two years later, in Sep 1718, he "gave satisfaction" to the Trade, and was received back into the Incorporation; app and journeymen: Robert Knox (1711); David Baxter (1712j); Adam Bishop (1712j); Charles Strachan (1714); John Brown (1716); Adam Anderson (1719)

 

 

MAKIVER, IVANDER: wright; bound app to John Thomson, 23 Sep 1718; adm Freeman, 9 Aug 1723; active, 1723-1728; m to Isobell Lethom; app: Robert Duagell (1725)

 

MARCH, JAMES: wright; entered journeyman to John Thomson, 7 Dec 1718

 

MATERS, ALEXANDER: wright; bound app to Walter Watson, 40 shillings booking money received, 11 Sep 1734

 

MELDRUM, DAVID: wright; entered journeyman to Alexander Young, 15 Oct 1712

 

MILLER, ROBERT: app to Alexander Bruce, 40s booking money paid, 18 Nov 1681

 

MILLER, WILLIAM: described as "wright, formerly in Pathhead, now resident in Burntisland," when adm Burgess, Feb 3 1768

 

MILNE, JAMES (b 1788): wright and builder, c 1817-60; was b Aberdour, April 5 1788, son of John Milne and Mgt Morris; adm Freeman, Sep 1817 (ITB); listed Pigot (1825) at Shore; by 1837 had removed to High Street; emp 7 men and 5 app in 1851; retired by 1861; app: William Swan (1821); Andrew Muir (1826)

 

MITCHELL, ALEXANDER: app to James Ritchie, 40/- paid, 26 Nov 1668

 

MORES, JAMES: app to Thomas Lundie, May 1741 (ITB); Burgess, Sep 24 1746; adm Freeman, Nov 1748, "having served his time in this place" (ITB) app: Alexander Lyell (1765)

 

MORRISON, JAMES: wright, married to Janet Robertson, with chidren, James (Burgess, Dec 15 1770), George (Burgess, Dec 6 1785) and Mgt; Disp & settlement, June 3 1808 (B9/7/3, P 186)

 

MOURBIE, DAVID: adm Freeman, 21 Dec 1700

 

MUIR, ANDREW: app to James Milne, Sep 1826 (ITB)

 

 

ORROCK, DAVID: wright in Kirkton; only son of David Orrock, sailor in Burntisland, & Mgt Livingston

 

ORROCK, JOHN: app to David Stocks, Sep 1773 (ITB)

 

 

PARK, JOHN: cooper; adm Freeman, 12 Oct 1655; paid 20 merks Scots, beginning at Martinmas 1655, and the rest to be paid in full by Martinmas 1656; app: Alexander Smyth (1655)

 

PATERSON, JAMES: cooper; bound app to Adam Connor, 28 Jan 1680

 

PAXTON, (HENRY): app to Alexander Lyell, Sep 1792 (ITB)

 

PRIMROSE [PRYMROS], ROBERT: adm Freeman, Martinmas 1653; tp #20 Scots in the box by the terms of Whitsunday and Martinmas 1654

 

RANKILOR, DAVID: app to Alexander Brown, 40/- paid, 3 Sep 1668; adm Freeman, 12 Sep 1673

 

REID, ALEXANDER: mason; Burgess, April 9 1756

 

REID, JAMES: entered servitor to John Thomson, wright, May 14 1729

 

RINE, WILLIAM: app to John Crawford, Sep 1764 (ITB)

 

RITCHIE, JAMES: app to Hendre Watesone; 20/- paid, 20 May 1664; made full payment for his Freedom, 3 Sep 1668; active, 1668-81; app: Alexander Mitchell (1668)

 

ROBERTSON, ALEXANDER: carpenter; Burgess, Nov 13 1739

 

ROBERTSONE, JAMES: app to James Graham, 40/- paid, 30 Dec 1665

 

SCOT, WALTER: app to Thomas Lundie, Sep 1765 (ITB)

 

SHORT, ANDREW: shipmaster; "in the continual practice" of employing John Stanhous, wright, contrary to the express Articles of Trade, for which transgression he was fined #10 Scots in Oct 1720 (Minute dated 7 Oct 1720)

 

SINCLAIR [SICKLAR], WILLIAM: app to Alexander Lyell, Sep 1805

 

SMYTH, ANDREW: has agreed with John Park, cooper, for his Freedom, 12 Oct 1655

 

STANHOUS (STENHOUSE), ALEXANDER: wright; bound app to Charles Watson, 20 July 1682; adm Freeman, May 1 1689; active, 1689-95

 

STANHOUS (STENHOUSE), JOHN: wright; entered journeyman to Alexander Young, 17 Nov 1714; Young had died by 1717, when Stanhous had entered journeyman to his relict, Hellen Tayliur (Helen Taylor); an unfreeman and journeyman with the Wrights, he abused the Deacon and the whole Trades, because they interrrupted him from working in Andrew Short's house, and had him inprisoned; Stanhous subsequently gave summons to some to the Trade to appear before the Magistrates (See Minute of ITB dated 5 Oct 1717); the Trade "discharges each member with the Incorporation to employ said John Stanhous in all tyme coming" (Minute of Hammerman Book dated Nov 15 1717); fined #10 for comntempt in Oct 1720 (see Andrew Short)

 

STANHOUS, WILLIAM: app to James Graham, 40/- paid, 7 Nov 1667; made full payment, 7 May 1669; later became Freeman; Member of Trade in 1685 and again in 1689

 

STOCKS, DAVID: wright; bound app to Thomas Lundie, 20 June 1735; Burgess, Oct 31 1739; Freeman by 1743; app: Hendrie Foot (1743); Thomas Johnston (1750); George Lessels (1769); George Wilson (1769); John Orrock (1773)

 

STOCKS, JAMES: cooper; bound app to John Stocks, June 3 1723

 

STOCKS [STOXE], JOHN (d 1739): cooper; bound app to John Crawford, Dec 11 1680; adm Freeman, 19 Sep 1694 (ITB); active 1700-33; Deacon (1717); d May 17 1739 aged about 60; app: John Carwals (1718); James Stocks (1723); James Wilson (1723)

 

STRACHAN, CHARLES: wright; entered journeyman to William Lyell, 20 Aug 1714

 

SUTHERLAND, MAGNUS: app to John Crawford, #2 Scots paid, 11 Aug 1673; adm Freeman, 28 Dec 1678

 

SWAN, WILLIAM: app to James Milne, Sep 1821 (ITB)

 

THALANE, DAVID: app to John Crawford, 40/- paid, 31 Oct 1668

 

THOMSON, ANDREW: wright; entered journeyman to John Thomson, 5 April 1739

 

THOMSON, GEORGE: ship carpenter; married to Isobell Black, only child, Isobell Thomson; Disp, 28 Feb 1771 (B9/7/2)

 

THOMSON, HENDRIE: wright; bound app to John Crawford, 22 May 1677; booked journeyman to Andrew Lyells, 27 Nov 1686

 

THOMSON, JOHN: wright; servitor to Alexander Young; unsuccessfully applied for his Freedom, Nov 3 1712; entered journeyman, Nov 27 1712; adm Freeman, July 13 1715; active, 1715-35; Deacon (1723-25); proclaimed in marriage at Aberdour and Burntisland, 9 May 1713/12 June 1713 to Katharine Black; app and journeymen: Ivander Makiver (1718); William Hogan (1718s); James March (1718j); George Wilson (1720); James Kid (1729j); James Reid (1729s); Robert Geddes (1733j); William Liveston (1739j) Andrew Thomson (1739j); Ned Wightman (1739j)

 

THOMSON, ROBERT: wright; adm Freeman, 27 Nov 1724

 

TURPIE [TOURPIE], JAMES: active 1675-89

 

TURPIE [TOURPIE], WILLIAM: adm Freeman, 27 Nov 1686; active, 1686-89

 

WALLTER, MOURAY: app to Thomas Lundie, Sep 1765 (ITB)

 

WATERSTON, HENRY: active, 1653-77; app: Adam Connor (1658); James Ritchie (1664); John Broune (1667)

 

WATERSON, MITCHEL: wright; servitor to Thomas Lundie; entered journeyman, 9 April 1729 to James Coliar

 

WATSON, CHARLES: wright; app to James Graham, paid 40/-, 20 May 1664; made full payment for his Freedom, 12 June 1671; active, 1671-1730; Deacon (1683; 1685; 1694-95; 1700-02; 1711-14; 1718-21); app: John Gray (1677); Alexander Stanhous (1682); James Wilson (1687)

 

WATSON, WALTER: wright; active, 1711-35; Deacon (1726-33); m to Bessie Dewar, who d March 12 1739; app: Alexander Maters (1734)

 

WATT, GEORGE: carpenter, son of Andrew Watt, late Provost; Burgess, April 18 1737

 

WATT, JOHN: app to Thomas Lundie, May 1741 (ITB)

 

WEMYSS, DAVID: app to David Cameron, Sep 1812 (ITB)

 

WIGHTMAN, NED: wright; entered journeyman to John Thomson, 5 April 1739

 

WILLIAMSON, JAMES: wright; eldest son of Simon Williamson; adm Freeman, 8 Sep 1716; active, 1716-35; Deacon (1734); m Elizabeth Burn of Auchtertool, 03 June 1734

 

WILLIAMSON, SIMON (b 1677): wright; b 30 Dec 1677, son of Simon Williamson and Janet Hutchen; adm Freeman, 18 Dec 1697; active, 1697-29; Deacon (1715-16); m 25 Jan 1707 Janet Scot (she d Dec 6 1736)

 

WILSON, ANDREW: mason; paid 40/- at term of Whitsunday 1655 (recorded 12 Oct 1655); paid 40/- into the box to Martinmas 1654 (recorded 24 Nov 1654); paid #4 Scots, 27 Nov 1656; paid #18, 3rd May 1666, the 3rd part to be paid at Whitsunday 1666, and the other third part to be paid at Whitsunday next, and the other third part at Whitsunday 1667; made full payment for his Freedom, 30 Dec 1667; active, 1667-85

 

WILSON, GEORGE (1): wright; lawful son of George Wilson, carpenter; bound app to John Thomson, 21 April 1720

 

WILSON, GEORGE (2): app to David Stocks, July 1769 (ITB)

 

WILSON, JAMES (1): wright; bound app to Charles Watson, 7 Dec 1687

 

WILSON, JAMES (2): app to John Stocks, cooper, June 3 1723

 

WISHART, DAVID: wright; entered journeyman to Thomas Lundie, "in the year of God 1731" (recorded May 14 1731); wright in Grange; m to Isobel Wishart

 

 

YOUNG, ALEXANDER: wright; adm Freeman, 5 Oct 1711; fined #7 for transgressions, April 1714; d 1714-17; relict, Hellen Tayliur (Helen Taylor) - an Alexander Young and Helen Tayliour were married at Crail, 27 May 1707; app and journeymen: John Blackwood (1711); David Meldrum (1712); John Thomson (1712s); John Stanhous (1714j)

 

 

 

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